Chapter Eighty-Seven: Intercepting the Seattle Fleet

"It seems that Boss Gangzi heard my words and gave the location of the Seattle fleet, wow...... It's so far away, even when the audience is too far away, the poor South American fleet doesn't know how to offend Hugh Hobert, they are really abandoned, and call us to mourn for a second for the poor baby of South America. ”

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"When the time comes, let's turn the picture to the battlefield of the battle, and let's enjoy the wonderful performance that Gangzi Boss has presented for us!"

At the Seattle Operations Center, Hugh Hobert shouted angrily: "The fleet has all turned around and fully supported the South American fleet." ”

"But Lord Admiral, our fleet has all dispersed in pursuit, and if we support it like this, I'm afraid we will suffer even more damage."

Under Hugh Hobert's order, the entire Seattle fleet pursued the imaginary "Gangzi fleet" at full speed, with the fast ones running in front, the slow ones behind, and the ones blocking the front road, chasing behind, and outflanking left and right, and the entire fleet was scattered on the sea surface for three nautical miles. If such a formation were pulled over to support the South American fleet, it would definitely suffer great losses in the face of the concentrated attack of the Langya fleet, which maintained the battle line.

Hugh Hobert looked at the Seattle fleet scattered across the sea, gritted his teeth and said, "Order the Seattle fleet to assemble and inform the South American fleet to tell them to hold on...... They were told to abandon all wounded ships and march at full speed toward Pearl Harbor, where a naval patrol fleet of Pearl Harbor was patrolling the route, leading the Langya fleet there, and trying to call the Pearl Harbor Navy into the war. ”

But the South American fleet didn't do it, they had been ambushed twice by the Langya fleet, and there were already a large number of damaged warships in the fleet, if their intact battleships ran to Pearl Harbor at full speed, what if the Langya fleet didn't pursue to attack these wounded ships?

"The Langya fleet is not stupid, they must know that the closer they get to Pearl Harbor, the greater the chance of encountering the Pearl Harbor Navy, if I were Gangzi, I would definitely attack these wounded ships first."

"Hugh Hobert is a rich idiot who lost to Gangzi in the 'King of Sails' competition. A few days ago, Gangzi sank the "Flying Dutchman", and the Hawaiian fleet under his command was completely wiped out by Gangzi, and now he is being continuously played by the other side. How could Xi Du send such a fool to command such an important battle! ”

"Because he has money, half of the three-masted battleships in the entire Seattle fleet are his."

"We are all poor, my warship was wounded by his mistake, and he is going to abandon me at this time, and I will curse whoever dares to run."

"Whoever runs curses."

"In fact, we can find that any decision Hugh Hobert made in the face of Gangzi is wrong, as long as we don't do what he commands, we are right, so we can't follow his orders to run to Pearl Harbor. If we casually abandon our compatriots this time, we will also be casually abandoned next time, and now we are told to cut off the connection with the Seattle command center, reconnect the operational command centers of the various legions, and use our men to take over the command of the fleet, and the wounded ships will be opened inward, and the battleships with good performance will be driven to the sides to resist. We gave Hugh Hobert two choices: one was to rescue us quickly; The second is to see us finished. ”

The South American fleet ignored Hugh Hobert's orders, and they spontaneously protected the damaged ships in the inner ring, and gradually formed an organized counterattack. Although it can't change the situation of being suppressed, it is not completely passively beaten.

"How dare these South Americans disobey my orders!" It was discovered that the South American fleet had cut off contact with the Seattle command center and continued to retreat towards Pearl Harbor while resisting the attack of the Langya fleet at its original marching speed. Hugh Hobert knew that the South American fleet was not going to listen to his command.

"It is estimated that our two successive mistakes have caused heavy losses to the South American Fleet, causing them to resist our orders, and now the South American Fleet has cut off contact with us. We're trying to get back in command, but I don't think there's much hope of regaining command of the South American Fleet until we're done with the rescue of the South American Fleet. ”

The adjutant's advice calmed Hugh Hobert down. He couldn't have called the South American Fleet such a vain loss: "Inform the South American Fleet once again that the Seattle Fleet will not be able to support them in a short period of time, and tell them to run to Pearl Harbor, and all the warships that sail into Pearl Harbor and hand over to the captain of the United States can be replaced with an identical brand new warship after the war, and receive a certain monetary reward." If they continue to guard those wounded ships, let them be finished together, and I don't need Hugh Hobert's subordinates who don't listen to orders. ”

Stimulated by money and tempted to withdraw from the battle without damage, the South American captains immediately gave up their rhetoric and desperately started the battleship. As for the wounded ships, no one wanted to stop and play with them, despite the captains cursing and shouting.

On the "Flying Henan", Gangzi is in control of the movements of the entire battlefield, the Seattle fleet is regrouping, it will take a little time for them to rush over, the South American fleet has begun to have effective resistance after experiencing the chaos of the beginning of the attack, and the Langya fleet has already had damaged warships. It's just that the South American fleet soon changed, they actually abandoned the wounded ships and began to advance at full speed towards Pearl Harbor, and then Hugh Hobert's commitment to the South American fleet through the inner line was also passed on to Gangzi.

"It seems that Hugh Hobert also sees that these South American players are useless except for dragging their feet, and replacing them all with Captain Mi is indeed a good way to improve combat effectiveness." After receiving the information, Gangzi immediately ordered, "The Qingzhou Tier 5 battleship group is speeding up to block the way of the South American fleet and prevent them from entering the waters off Pearl Harbor. ”

"Report to your Excellency, an offshore route of a Pearl Harbor patrol fleet, and our interception of the South American fleet is likely to be detected by them."

"The hairstyle doesn't fall! Is there anyone from you near that Pearl Harbor patrol fleet? ”

"Report to the Admiral, there's a high-speed dhow watching nearby."

"Tell him to lure that patrol fleet away."

"Yes!"

Off the coast of Pearl Harbor, a patrol fleet of the U.S. Navy consisting of three brigs was on duty, and nothing of note happened on the dark sea. However, at this moment, suddenly there was a burst of cannon fire on their right, and then a cannonball fell on the sea near them.

"Enemy attack, listen to the sound of artillery is a sloop, is pirate so rampant now? Dare to attack the naval fleet! ”

"I guess we were mistaken for merchant ships, after all, we can't see clearly at night, head, what should we do?"

"Chase! This is an offshore route. It is our duty to drive out pirates and protect the shipping routes. ”

So the Pearl Harbor naval patrol fleet, which Hugh Hobert had high hopes for, deviated from its course.

"What did you lose the Pearl Harbor Patrol Fleet, rubbish! You can't find the Langya fleet, and you can lose such an obvious Pearl Harbor fleet, what else can you do? Hugh Hobert, who had high hopes for the Pearl Harbor Navy patrol fleet, yelled at his men when he found out that the navy had disappeared.

"Our merchant ships at Pearl Harbor could not keep up with the speed of the Pearl Harbor Naval Patrol Fleet, and although our warships could keep up with the speed of the patrol fleet, in order to avoid hostility on the part of the patrol fleet, they did not directly follow them, but tracked them outside the line of sight, and approached to confirm their position every fifteen minutes. When we arrived, we found that the Pearl Harbor patrol fleet was no longer on their course. ”

"Fake, it's Gangzi again, I just heard that he has a strong ability to fight at night, but I didn't expect it to be so strong, he obviously doesn't have many dhows in his hands, but he has been suppressing the Seattle fleet in terms of information acquisition ability, no wonder he dares to use the Langya fleet to block my Seattle fleet, judging from the performance of the two fleets at this stage. Gangzi's command level is really eye-catching. ”

But now is not the time to praise the opponent, the South American fleet has been blocked by the Langya fleet, stimulated by Hugh Hobert's reward, and the South American players who want to protect the warship have no intention of fighting the Langya fleet. Except for a small number of people who dared to go head-to-head with the Langya fleet. The other battleships desperately ran to both sides, trying to bypass the battle line of the Langya fleet and run towards Pearl Harbor.

And those small parts of the battleships that resisted, were soon drowned in a rain of artillery. And the Langya fleet became calm again, calmly firing at the South American fleet that was scurrying in front of him for fear of being targeted, and just running fast.

"At this moment, I realized how wise it was for the Hangzhou fleet not to call the Nanyang players to join, since they carried forward the tradition of engaging in a sit-down confrontation with the Australian fleet. We can see that they are the same as the South American fleet, and they are not afraid of god-like opponents and pig-like teammates. Now Hugh Hobert probably has already discovered the unreliability of these teammates, and is ready to ask them to enter Pearl Harbor to replace his captain. And Gangzi Boss's purpose is very clear, he must ask these South American players to continue to pit the Seattle fleet. ”

"According to the information given by the Lingxiao Legion, the Seattle fleet has completed the initial assembly and is coming to the battlefield to support, and then looking at the South American fleet, it is estimated that more than half of the losses have been made, and these warships can no longer participate in tomorrow's general battle, and the time is about to reach 1 o'clock in the morning, and my Langya fleet is still alive and well on the battlefield."

"Look, the main fleet of Gangzi Boss rushed in from the rear of the South American Fleet, although our high-altitude perspective can not clearly see the scene in the battlefield, but look at the surging firelight must be the 'Flying Henan People' Undoubtedly, the rear looks like five three-masted battleships, they have rushed into the South American Fleet's ship group, and see the shadows of those flashes fleeing in a hurry, those brigs are like funny dwarfs around the 'Flying Henan People'. …… Look! See, the 'Flying Henan' crashed into a brig, oh...... Oh, my God! I also have a brig, the hull is really very strong, but this is a batted brig is like a child's stacked building blocks, a light collision will be all broken, is it so weak! How can I still safely drive my battleship out to show off in the future? However, as soon as the 'Flying Henan People' came out, there was nothing to show off about any brigs, so please send some flowers for my wounded heart. ”

The beautiful anchor uses her own language to arouse the passion of the audience, and Gangzi is also breaking into the South American fleet with all the three-masted battleships as she said.

The Langya fleet is a battle line composed of Qingzhou five-class warships, which seems to form an insurmountable barrier, and they insert into the route of the South American fleet from the diagonal direction, except for a small number of South American warships in front of them who escaped interception and rushed to Pearl Harbor, most of the South American warships were blocked in the way of progress. Under the concentrated firepower of the Langya fleet, the limited counterattack of the South American fleet was quickly destroyed, and the remaining battleships fled to both sides in order to keep their warships, and they had completely lost the determination to organize and fight.

Finding that the South American fleet had lost the will to fight, Gangzi decisively crashed into the capital ship group, led by the "Flying Henan People", and wantonly collided in the South American ship group, and under the hard shell of the "Flying Henan People", no warship could withstand his impact. However, the speed of the collision is limited. The guns on both sides are the strongest fists. Most of the naval guns of the "Flying Henan" were 22-pound steel smoothbore guns, some of which were 16-pound fine-iron smoothbore guns, and all the other three-masted battleships were equipped with 16-pound iron-iron-smoothbore guns. The density and power of the artillery were very damaging to a Brig-class battleship. The artillery swept through the debris, especially this kind of close-range bombardment, and some brigs would be lifted off and fall directly on the surface of the sea after being hit by the concentrated hit of the "Flying Henan".

Gangzi took his battleship like a tiger intruding into a flock of sheep and slaughtered wantonly, knocking over one battleship after another, until he could no longer see a hostile battleship around him.

"Report to your lordship, we have inflicted heavy damage on the South American fleet. The rest of their ships had crossed the end of our line of battle and were fleeing towards Pearl Harbor, and the commanders of the fleet asked us where we were going next, and I remind you that the Seattle fleet had come up and had completed the battle formation. Our high-speed dhow is holding back enemy sloops and getting rid of the threat of the Seattle fleet if we can retreat in time. ”

Gangzi, who was slightly awake in the excitement of the battle, looked at the position of the fleets of both sides. The Seattle fleet had indeed completed the battle formation and sailed to within two nautical miles, as long as it was a little closer. The two sides would be able to see each other, and the individual sloops of the Seattle fleet were already in sight and were being entangled in battleships with unmessed hair.

"The Langya fleet all turned around, exposing our intact starboard side. The three-masted battleship was ready to enter the battle line with the "Flying Henan People", "Gangzi's orders were issued again and again, and even the players who were watching the battle could feel the irresistible air pressure when Gangzi entered the command state," It is now two o'clock in the morning. The South American fleet had been routed, and by the time they entered Pearl Harbor, Hugh Hobert would gather and reorganize the combat strength before dawn; The Seattle fleet has already attacked. And we are blocking their route to Pearl Harbor, and if we avoid it at this time, Hugh Hobert will probably call the Seattle fleet directly into Pearl Harbor to rest and prepare for the decisive battle at dawn, so in order to be able to drag the Seattle fleet at sea, we must block here. Let them see the true strength of our Langya fleet, the battle just now is not even a warm-up. ”

Gangzi's bold words attracted applause. "It's still a head-to-head battle with the fleet, but it's not visible when it's dark!"

The Langya fleet turned right neatly, and the "Flying Henan" entered the fleet pilot position with a three-masted battleship formation, and the fleet with a PK hairstyle no longer blocked the approach of the Seattle dhows, and most of them shrank to the perimeter of the large fleet as an elastic barrier.

To tell the truth, Gangzi can ambush the South American fleet continuously, and the role played by the fleet with a good hairstyle is very important, and it is they who blocked the search of the Langya fleet by the Seattle fleet dhows with less fights, so that the Langya fleet hid and continuously threw heavy punches. Especially when camouflaging and protecting the main ship group of Gangzi, it was really a desperate fight without any room for retreat, and it was the outstanding performance of the fleet that made Hugh Hobert fool and made a major command mistake, completely shelving the South American fleet under the naval guns of the Langya fleet.

Now the fleet with a good hairstyle is seriously damaged, and it can no longer effectively intercept the Seattle fleet's dhows, so Gangzi simply stopped blocking them, and let these dhow ships that came over report the coordinates of their warships to the Seattle fleet.

On the command channel of the Langya fleet, Gangzi said: "The enemy's dhows are already in position, and our position is estimated that the other side already knows, the enemy's artillery bombardment will start at any time, and the ships will fight back freely; Now our combat command system, which has been established based on the 'perception' of the soul of the 'Flying Henan', has begun to operate, and the captains of each ship pay attention to the coordinate data given by the flagship at any time to carry out shelling. Although my ships are somewhat inferior in numbers to the Seattle fleet, we have the Flying Henan, which is the most powerful warship on the sea, and its name will eventually resound throughout the ocean. With its flagship skills, our warships are not easy to concentrate, but our artillery bombardment is more accurate, so let's fight to our heart's content! Destroy all enemies with our artillery. ”

"Boom, boom, boom......"

In the darkness, the starboard direction of the Langya fleet was instantly filled with flashes, and the Seattle fleet attacked.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Before the shells of the Seattle fleet arrived, the guns of the Langya fleet's counterattack rang out at the same time, and the night sky off Pearl Harbor was instantly filled with the constant roar of artillery, and then the water column stirred up by the missed shells scurried up around the warships on both sides, and the occasional hit left marks on the hull one by one, as well as the screams of the sailors; the shouts of the gunner; The captain yelled. All of this indicates that one of the biggest naval battles ever played in the player has begun. (To be continued......)